Ha! There's that word again - Muslim. Why do 'progressives' continue to insist Muslims = Islamists? 🤔
Maybe white progressives truly view brown and black people as exotic, but ultimately simple-minded, savages. They certainly seem to regard their fellow white people as more evolved and complex beings compared to the rest of humanity.
Christianity has various denominations and sects. There's a whole range and depth of ideological and political views. You can have Quakers who are pacifists. There are plenty of bland, middle-of-the-road sects that are all about happy clappy Jesus loves you songs.
You can have the crazy Westboro Baptist Church types with their distasteful picketing and preaching, as well as even more dangerous, extremist types that bomb abortion clinics.
Even if some hardcore evangelical sects reject outright violence, they might engage in various activities to spread their ideological message - lots of funding to set up pressure groups in different countries, including political parties or funding political activists and candidates to get into positions of power and political influence. They genuinely believe in their religion and ideological cause and are motivated to influence people and laws to fit their views.
White progressives get weirdly excited and agitated by 'far-right Christians'. The thought of certain Christians in political office or funding political pressure groups or organising in ways to gain political power makes white progressives lose their minds.
Notice they never use the term 'Christians'. They always call them 'far-right Christians'. These shadowy, demonic 'far-right Christians' lurk everywhere! One must be ever vigilant against them! Any political or campaign group that disagrees with the progressive holy faith must be funded by 'far-right Christians'!
White progressives view their fellow white people as equal to them - white Christians are full human beings in their eyes. Hence they call them 'far-right Christians'. At least on paper, progressives acknowledge that white people (and white people's religions) are complex and multifaceted. You can have 'nice Christians' and 'evil far-right Christians'. Progressives will tolerate 'normal' Christians but 'far-right Christians' are the personification of pure evil and they must be resisted at all costs and by any means!!! If people vote for such candidates, that means they are evil too! Let us rejoice, for Our Progressive Lord has defeated them at the ballot box!
Of course there's a separate conversation that white progressives are so turned on by the thought of 'far-right Christians' (and 'fascism') that pretty much any Christian is smeared as far-right these days if they disagree with abortion or homosexuality, but we'll leave that topic for another time. (Also, there are black Americans and black Africans with the same beliefs as these white 'far-right Christians' but cough... cough... Look a genderqueer squirrel!)
Contrast that with how non-white people and religions are viewed by progressives. Hinduism? Islam? Ah... Simple religions for simple-minded people. They couldn't possibly have a wide range of political and ideological views.
There are mysticism based Sufis in Islamic theology. There's lots of Saudi Arabian funding for spreading the Wahhabism movement around the world. And of course, the hardcore Salafi movement which encompasses the range of pacifist, but preachy types to those in the 'middle' advocating for political struggle and power, and those who take the political struggle even further with sheer violence - what we know as Jihadists.
And yet, to the white progressive there is no 'far-right Muslim'. Only a generic, simple-minded 'Muslim'. White people are special, including white Christians. They are able to come up with a variety of ideological movements - from peaceful to violent. They are capable of funding political and advocacy groups to gain political representation and power around the world. And of course, if they try to do this they must be opposed, for they are not just any Christian, but a 'far-right Christian'! Apparently, this is not something people who are not white are capable of doing. They are empty vessels with no agency and any undesirable behaviour is due to bad, white people around them.
I do think white progressives truly think non-white people are beneath them. There's no other rational explanation for why they get so agitated by white Christians but not brown Hindus or Muslims who follow far-right ideologies.